peatükist

Peatükist is the elative singular form of the Estonian noun peatükk, meaning “chapter.” It denotes origin or extraction from within a chapter and is used when referring to material that comes from a specific chapter of a text, such as a book or article.

In Estonian grammar, nouns decline across cases, and peatükist is the elative form used to express movement away from or source within a chapter. It is commonly found in scholarly, literary, and instructional writing when citing or quoting from a chapter. For example, sentences such as “Näited on peatükist võetud” (The examples are taken from the chapter) or “Ta viitas peatükist võetud materjalile” (He referred to material taken from the chapter) illustrate its typical usage.

Peatükist is not a separate lexical item beyond its inflected form; it is the elative case form of peatükk. The corresponding plural elative form would be peatükidest, used for references to sources from multiple chapters. The term is mainly encountered in formal Estonian writing and in discussions about textual material and sourcing within a chapter.

See also peatükk, the base noun meaning chapter, and related grammatical terms for Estonian noun declension.